Interviewing Francis Bacon: Unreliable Oral History
Bacon felt very strongly about phraseology. He erased words like ‘very, very’, or ‘well’, and ‘you see’, but added words like ‘accident’ and ‘artificial’.
Bacon felt very strongly about phraseology. He erased words like ‘very, very’, or ‘well’, and ‘you see’, but added words like ‘accident’ and ‘artificial’.
“I mean there was that twenty-minute experience of thinking, well, all my life has been wasted but this is marvellous…” – Franz Kline
“I’ve had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from them.”